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True Crime with Kendall Rae

From Applebee’s to a Fatal Car Crash… the Chilling Case of Morgan Patten

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On November 8, 2019, 24-year-old Morgan Patten made the long trip from her home down to Jacksonville, NC to visit her fiancé, Phil Brandon, a Marine training at Camp Geiger. After she arrived at her hotel that night, she decided to go out to the nearby Applebee’s for a quick dinner before turning in for the night. When she was in the restaurant, she quickly became the target of two predatory Marines who were prowling the area for a victim. They drugged and put her into their truck to assault her, and then got into a horrible car accident which ended up being fatal for Morgan.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Kendall and Josh from Mile Higher Media.

0:03.4

And as most of you guys know, last September, we launched our foundation, the Higher Hope Foundation.

0:09.0

And honestly, it's been pleasantly surprising how much we have been able to do in our first year, thanks to all of you.

0:15.0

The amount of grants that we have been able to offer to victims, families of victims, as well as similar minded nonprofits in the advocacy space.

0:22.9

It's just been an amazing first year.

0:25.8

Yeah, we just wanted to thank you so much for all of your support out there, whether you've

0:29.5

given a donation, whether you've purchased merch, which again, all merchandise at MalhireMurch.com,

0:35.4

100% of proceeds goes to the higher hope foundation.

0:37.6

So that's been absolutely huge for the foundation since we've made that change.

0:43.2

But also just by viewing our content, listening to our content or supporting any of our

0:48.0

sponsors, all of that goes into funding the grants that the Higher Hope Foundation is able to give.

0:54.5

And so far in 2025, we've dispersed over $210,000 in grants, scholarships, and projects,

1:00.9

and we've also processed over 25 grants.

1:03.9

And right now, we are in our season of giving, and we're only $40,000 shy of reaching our full impact goal. So obviously we'd love to meet

1:14.5

this goal and we intend to meet this goal. Closing this gap means helping eight more families

1:19.9

or organizations that are still waiting for the help that they deserve. And so every gift,

1:24.4

no matter the size, and by the way, every single cent that you donate goes directly to grants, 100% of that.

1:30.4

And every little bit of it makes a huge difference for us and will help people who are still waiting.

1:35.7

And during our season of giving, we're going to be matching every dollar up to $50,000 of donations that are made during this time.

1:44.0

And if we reach our goal, we'll also

1:45.8

reach our year-end impact goal, which will be huge for the foundation and huge for all of those

1:50.5

out there who need help. Yeah, and it will allow us to start 2026 strong. You can get involved

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